Improvement in water-wheels



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y THOMAS G. HALL, 0F BEACH HAvENfAssIGNoH To HiMsELF AND DANIELF. SE-YB-ERT, OF SALEM, PENNSYLVANIA.

Leners Patent No.' codename May 1s, 1869.

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Tho,`Bchedu1o referred to in theaejiettera Patent-"and making part of thfe same.

`To all whom it may concern.- l 1 i Be it known that I, THOMAS G. HALL, of Beach `Haven, in the county of Luzerne, and State of Penn-V sylvania, have invented a new anduseful Im rovcment inWater-Wheels andldo hereby declare t at the fol- "lowingis a full, clear, and exact description thereof',

, Figure 8, a vertical section, and l Figure 9 a horizontal section of the same; and Figure 10, a vertical section of one of the central buckets.

Like letters designate like partsin all the figures.

yThe nature of my invention consists in the peculiar i formvand `arrangement of the' buckets of the wheel,

form of the inletsto the wheel, for the passage of the water, and the form of thegates. y n j To enablethose skillcdin the art to make and use my inventionI will proceed to describe its construction andoperation In the drawings- Y A representsthe case, inside which the wheel, B, is placed. f O, the inlets, around the sides of the case A, for the i passage of water to the wheel.

D D', Athe gates. E, lthe ring, or collar, towhich the gates are attached. j y i F, the shaft, to Awhich the wheel -is secured. G, the main arms, or verticalbuckets. H, the hottom-dilscharge buckets, and Y I, the central-discharge back-water buckets. J, the piece on the shaft E towhich the arms, or buckets G are secured. y K arid L are circular plates, between which are the buckets G, and between 'ach of these buckets, in the lower plate, L, is :am-opening through'which part of the-waterescapes'4 into the bottom-discharge buck- The inlets C areconstructed'in such a. manner that the water that passes through them strikes the verf tical buckets of the wheel at about right angles, as.

seen in fig. 2. g

` They are also so constructed that theygare shaped Alikea letter V with its point cut off, the narrow part being nexttoJthe wheel, by which means the force of the water against the buckets is increased.

The form ofthe buckets G is such that'the portion where the`water-rst strikes is concave, audit then` curves in the opposite direction, which allows part of the/water to pass to the central buckets I, withoutbeing obstructed in its course.

A portion ofthe water escapes through the buckets H.

rlhe central buckets I are inside of the inner circumference of the vertical buckets G, and are formed of an extension of each alternate bucket. A

The buckets I extend down below the buckets G, and` curve backward, that is, iu an opposite direction to that of the revolution of the wheel, and are long 4enough to discharge-the water backof the centre',

thus preventing back-,water 'from remaining in the wheel.

To the lower ends of the gates D are secured-heri- Vzontal V-shaped pieces, D', the outer .endsv of which are turned upward, as` shown, in thedrawings. The y object of these pieces is to cause the 'water to flow v with greater'evenness to the .wheel when the gates are partially closed.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Pateut, is-

1. A series of. perpendicular gates, connected to a ring at the top, by the elevation of which ring they may be simultaneously raised, lsaid gatesV having a 'transverse `double ilange at the bottom, the outward part of which ares, or curves upward, and the inner part conductsl the owin a direct line to the wheel, all substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. Al turbine-wheel, having thel two concentric sets of buckets, I 'and G, all substantially as described.

` THOMAS y G. HALL.

Witnesses:

1 D. F. SEYBERT,

S. FRANK SCHWARTZ. 

